NY Times
10/10/95
Mr. McLaughlin died being brave. On Sunday afternoon, he and other members of Rescue 4 were summoned to a fire in a 23-unit apartment at 40-04 36th Avenue. He raced to the fourth, topmost floor to search for people when, fire officials say, a fireball burst through the ceiling and brought Mr. McLaughlin down>>>
NY
Daily
News
3/8/98
What
exactly
happened
Oct. 5,
1995,
may
never be
known,
partly
because
the
smoke
was so
thick
that
firefighters
lost
sight of
each
other.
As they
pulled
up to a
Queens
building,
flames
could be
seen
shooting
from
three
windows>>>
The
Naming
Of
"Firefighter
Peter F.
McLaughlin
Way" In
The
Borough
Of
Queens
NYC.gov
Press
Release
10/4/96
On October 8, 1995,
Rescue Unit #4
responded to a three
alarm-fire at an
apartment building
in Long Island City.
Knowing there was a
possibility that
people may be
trapped inside,
Peter began
searching for
survivors. While
searching a fourth
floor apartment
adjacent to the room
where the fire
began, the fire blew
down the ceiling on
top of Firefighter
McLaughlin, claiming
his life and
seriously injuring
his partner>>>
Lifelines
From
Heaven -
New FDNY
Ropes A
Lasting
Legacy
Of Lost
Fire
Heroes
NY Post
10/5/05
It's
better
than
what the
Bravest
had for
the past
five
years in
the way
of ropes
- which
was
nothing.
It's
even
better
than the
old
ropes,
Mahlstadt
said,
recalling
a 1995
fire in
Long
Island
City,
Queens,
that
trapped
and
killed
his
partner,
Pete
McLaughlin>>>
